Won Love
It’s Raining Yen
Yuan Me

What happened to Tarzan? When I was little BBC2 would show Tarzan films of a Saturday afternoon. Or Lassie films. Then late at night, Hammer Horror. Or intense 1970s psychodrama... And Soon the Darkness, Sunday, Blood Sunday, Running Scared. All forgotten now. Who Am I to talk to about culture?

I would like to write more about Burke’s metaethics. Someone needs to put on a Burke conference somewhere nice and invite us both to speak at it.

Political taxonomy is a funny game full of false oppositions. In the best sense of ‘conservatism’ anyone who is not a rogue or a fool is a conservative. Exactly the same is true of ‘liberalism’. And plausibly also of ‘socialism’. There is nothing remotely dissonant about professing all three.

Scottish referendum: yes and no agree it's a once-in-a-lifetime vote Both sides of the campaign gave made it clear they will abide by the result, as political fallout from reneging would be significant

Exactly what was agreed in 2014. A referendum at most once in a generation. An agreement on which Scotnats, bad losers that they are, instantly reneged.

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

He. Not we.

But we WAS a defender of Conservatism. Rather a brilliant one!

What exactly appalled him? From what I know of Cohen, he wasn’t a guy to let ideological differences stop him being generous and respectful in engaging with writers like e.g. Hayek or Nozick.

According to today’s episode of Have I Got News for You, no one on Gen Z understands the expression ‘hanky panky’

I want to read that! (And I’m on leave so maybe I even will!)

Who is ‘we’? If we are we the good guys, who reject retributive punishment and don't believe in the death penalty, then, trivially, yes. Otherwise probably not. There are a lot of retributivists on the left. Always were. Just ask my friend M. Robespierre.

彈琴

泠泠七弦上，
靜聽松風寒；
古調雖自愛，
今人多不彈。

劉長卿

Zither music

Notes rising from seven strings clear
And serene as a cold wind among pine trees.
Like a much loved old song
That no one plays any more.

Liu Changqing

They should really change the name to the BS rankings.

And hardly good publicity for BBC. I will bet you a lot of money likes of GB News/Murdoch press milking it for all it’s worth to talk up a narrative of how the BBC is a hotbed of paedos and pervs. BBC is damned if they do damned if they don’t position when it comes to his much they cover it.

Not odd. I’d never heard of the guy either. But we’re not in the radio 2 demographic. For people who are he is very far from unknown. As high profile as Huw Edwards say. And it’s not only the bbc treating it as big story. I really don’t think is a sinister plot to distract us from stuff.

James Lenman, The Possibility of Moral Community: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024. Hardback, ISBN: 9780198885085. 188 pages - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -

Sitting at home nursing bruised rib and feeling sorry for myself I was cheered up by this nice review of my little book by one of the world's coolest philosophers.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As I recall that exchange is mainly valuable as a handy resource for anyone looking to give an ostensively definition of the phrase ‘more heat than light’. Though in places the irascibility is so ott as ti be funny.

We don’t need Neil to tell us. It’s been obvious for ages to anyone who looks at it it’s a 24/7 Party Political Broadcast in shameless breach of the law on political advertising. No wonder they poll so well.

Yes. You get an AI to do it.😢😢😢

I very tentatively think ordinary bad people are people who want good things we all want like money or status or sex and contrive to lose the moral plot in how they go about getting them while evil people are people who want things that are not good, revelling perhaps in cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

No one forgets that who has read the great short horror story The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith.

Lawrence was deranged.

I do like the idea that sex and me are contemporaries.

There is a beast in your woods.

I do feel a little sorry for the management of the Woking Pizza Express. I suspect this whole narrative has brought them a lot of attention they could very happily have done without.

Hmm. I remember university. We did anomalous monism. And the private language argument. And the missing shade of blue. I don’t remember doing who is what to who. Maybe I was off that week…

I guess it’s coming out in stages. I’ve still to see proofs of my stuff.

He get’s his blessing - Gibbs decision not to grass him up to the authorities. But it’s not the blessing he yearns for, poor chap…

One of my very favourite films. I did a ‘Philosophy at the Showroom’ gig on it a couple of years ago.

On AI and moral expertise. The only kind of moral expert worth bothering with is someone who excels at the business of being a human being living a human life. And only a human being can be good at being a human being.